Since 2022, there were three times more sentences for the Stateismman and the justification of terror, and convicts for the initiation of hatred - less

In Russia, the number of sentences in the cases of state reception was three times: from 4 cases with one conditional term for the first half of 2022 to 15 for the same period of 2023. About this with reference to the statistics of the Judicial Department of the Supreme Court writes Kommersant. All defendants received real terms of imprisonment.

Over the same period, the number of sentences in cases of justification of terrorism has increased (Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of Russia) - from 126 to 167.

The publication notes that the court “less actively” considered cases of initiating hatred and demonstration of prohibited symbols (Articles 20.3 and 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). In total, 2690 protocols were examined and 2399 people were fined, while a year earlier - 3386 and 2690, respectively. At the same time, the number of held accountable under an article on public calls for violent change in the constitutional system (Article 280 of the Criminal Code of Russia) decreased over the year from 161 to 149.

The head of the criminal process of Moscow State University Leonid Golovko explained such a tendency by the influence of the situation around the war in Ukraine on social processes. He expressed the opinion that more attention was previously paid to the affairs of extremism, and now they have become less significant.

Golovko connected the increase in the number of sentences for the justification of terrorism with the frequent events that the UK qualifies as a terrorist attack - the fall of drones in Moscow , the explosions on the Crimean bridge , and the murder of Daria Dugina .

The interlocutor of the publication interlocutor explained to the number of administrative protocols on the “discrediting” of the Russian Army with the preventive action of the law. People, according to Golovko, adapted to prohibitions and began to roughly understand the limits of the permitted, for which they no longer go out.

For the first half of 2023, under an article on “fakes” about the army of Russia (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), the courts issued 21 sentences, of which eight defendants received real terms, three more - conditional, and ten were fined. This is more than last year. In 2022, 14 people were convicted under this article, two were sent to places of imprisonment.

In 2023, as Kommersant noted, sentences for “discrediting” (Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) became stricter. In 2022, this article was not deprived of freedom, only three defendants were accused, and fines were the maximum sanction. In 2023, 15 people were convicted under this article, two of whom lost freedom. Under Art. 280.3 of the Criminal Code provides for administrative prejudice .

In the first six months of 2022, under the Code of Code of Administrative Offenses, the courts of the Russian Federation considered 2953 protocols and fined 2505 people for 85.7 million rubles, in the first half of 2023 administrative cases of discrediting the courts were studied twice as less. They examined 1690 protocols and attracted 1308 people with a total fine of 42.7 million rubles.

As The Insider wrote, at the end of September, deputies proposed to extend the law on the law on the discrediting of the army, in addition to the RF Armed Forces and volunteers, to the fighters of the Russian Guard, including “volunteer formations” in its composition (there are no such formations yet, but the law that resolves them has passed the first reading). The project also passed the first reading.